Show 4rom4wi :: f I 0 4 14 A t ' E Sunday Morning Behind the Scenes of Current News gyfibutai Leaued --7- 1 I OVOZ7 Established April 15 nbuuto tou b nab is mornina bv bait tv t 7" or Obm Pan Crifr1-- Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning January 10 1943 1 To Cover fluctuating Incomes 5 ) 1 2 0 in Although the Ruml come tax plan was shelved at the last session of congress it has shown remarkable vitality and promises to become an important issue in the newly organizeed house and senate Already bills have been introduced in both chambers containing proVi3iOn3 for modification of the income tax law along lines of the program submitted by Beads ley Ruml chairman of the New York Federal bank and treasurer of the R H Macy company I - The Ruml -plan when it was proposed last year met opposition of United States treasury officials on the ground that it would provide an escape for a certain class of taxpayers As almost everyone knows by now the Ruml plan would "rub out"'' last year's tax bill while starting this year's payments on a monthly basis This was suggested to avoid double payments of taxes during the period of a shift from the present practice to the Sitting in miasmic mud waist deep he ministered to others but contracted a se- - vere illness from which as he was 76 years old he never entirely recovered Dr CHle was a man of such a dominating personality and artistic skill in the performance of operations that the envious accused him of showmanship but those who appreciated his accuracy resourcefulness and infallible coordination of mind and hand gave him credit for being a marvelous scientific surgeon pay-as-you-- 1 R Plan Revived Pay-As-You-- - - - 1 i 5 1 6 I Taunting survivors of an American crew whose vessel wa4 sinking in the north Atlantic as a result of being torpedoed the German captain of the victorious said: "Your ship is several hours behind schedule" It was a fact according to the men who were subsequently rescued The submarine officer knew what he was talking about Some one had U-bo- at pay-as-you-- go go - rs floe Off the r oil-de- I not understand the human problems they have put on the average mart Personal case histories are scarce No one furnishes them in the debate But I will tell January 10 1913 1: le 1 4 ' 7 r I : i ' ''''-1 k : '- i - -- - 7 'i t' ' " - ' t: '1-- - - - - - !:--'5t - '- :1- - 1 - ' - ' ':i e - V'-'''i 1 l'-'i- 7 ''4:t it r I!' 4 Iv -- of 4 'i' - ' 4 p rt '''1 ' 1 t - :'4' ' 'J : - ‘ - --- ' I IK:':' - ! k :tf i t ' : ::!::- 4 k rA ' 7: ' r:-- '' : V -'t 4 ( r f) tA r ) - '-- : :- - 16:' ice'i - - '11$- did c:7 -- r - 3 - 7 u' 1' ' 4") I - - - '''-- ow--- - - rrioEmix IttPUILIC AND GAZITIL ' ir- e' I : - ''' L'0! I 0- V J is fi1 ':- 7 ' ' ' it''''''"''''''°'-'''' oSYNpDICAI1 ' - ' ': e (: r "- :i Irt— ‘ e ' ' " ' - 1:- F - F'471 4 I- 'ii k - -- A ' ' 4- A' v Ze r - :I 11 ' '' SP 6e :'1 (Written expressly for The Salt Lake Tribune) By Niles Trammell President National Broadcasting Company Religious education has always been a keystone in ' the development of an abiding faith and In times of war the role of the Sunday school has become increasingly important in giving to our young people the foundations for a life which can be richly lived in terms of service and social and moral responsibility k ' The Sunday school in my own re- 1 '! experience shared with the teachligious e ing I received at home in the formation of patterns and habits that have been The Sunday throughout life ' - 7) 40roi:::-- : I mine school with the guidance of a wise and ' ' -: understanding zinstructor served to per- t :::::ii sonalize in my mind the familiar stories kk: and characters of the Bible Peter and k Paul and David an th the boy Jesus be- came realities to me companions whose lives were not unlike the experiences one 1 i routine t might meet in every-da- y 4 I I came school the 1i Sunday Through i to look upon the concept of an Eternal Father in the terms of my own home Mr Trammell and family as one who was constantly present as a part of the household Religious education must acquire new vitality to satisfy the curiosity and mental alertness of the young mind particularly if it is to have the significance It must attain in instilling faith through the minds and actions of those who will it is hoped build a better world from the ruins caused by an older generation '4':-'':--- k- Lucky Had Vacation Luckily I had a vacation in December so I closed the house for a month and went away to use the heat of others Coming back I felt comforted by announcements from 0 P A that all Washington dealers had enough oil although I could hardly reconcile this with the news in the same paper that the British embassy had no heat for IL r ' : ':::' ::: 1'J:1:-::':)-)!'- ' - L 4- one-fift- Senator From S'andpit ' What is in a name ? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as I sweet—Shakespeare There was a man whO hated nicknames Ms name was Wil- Ha mnyPark the flowers are black Mother and dead The lawn no longer green? Jack Frost has struck a killing blow No beauty can be seen Mother I wonder do you know— He climbed Into my lap Questioning eyes were large and — liam and he used to say that most fine carefully selected names were ruined by senseless abbreviations ' "I myself" he said "am one We were all of six brothers bright Is old Jack Frost a Jap? —Lucy S Taylor Bountiful Utah on Notes the Cuff Department "Jack had money Jin had nil Jill married Jack so Jack had Chrisgiven good tian names but all those names were shortened into meaningless or feeble monosyllables by our friends I shall name my children so that it will be impracticable to take such liberties with their names" In the course of time he became the father of five sons The eldest was named after him —William Of course that would be shortened to "Will" or enfeebled to "Willie" or utterly degraded to "Bill"—but wait! A second son came and was "Alia!" christened Willard "Now chuckled the old man everybody will have to pronounce the full names of each of these boys in order to distinguish them" In pursuance of this scheme the next three sons were named Wilbert Wilfred and Wilmot They are all big boys now But juvenile ingenuity was too much for their dad's strategy They are now respectively known to their intimates as Bill Butch Chuck and Skinny ed Jill Jill went to Reno now she's back Jack has nothing but Jill has jack" Among our neighbors in the hotel are Judge and Mrs Elias Smith I believe they have been here the longest of any of the tenants In fact I'm not sure thAt they weren't here before the building and it was built around them Anyway they're mighty nice folks "You've already had leave Private Smith to see your wife off on a journey—for your mother-in-law- 's funeral — for your little girl's measles—your boy's christening — what is it now?" "I'm going to get married sir" The government sent one of Its new deal bureaucrats down to Roosevelt Utah to investigate something or other While down there he met an Indian from the reservation Holding out his hand he said: Stinky! Child Logic Mother may I go out to play? Not now my little son Jack Frost descended in the "White man glad to see red man White man hopes big chief is feeling tip top this morn- night And summer play is done Mother may I wade in the pool? Not now my tiny one Jack Frost has filled the pool with ice And you could have no fun ing" "Hey Jake!" called the Indian to a friend in the poolroom "Come here and listen to this bozo! He's great!" 1- WASHINGTON—It is interesting to note how few voices are now raised in behalf of postwar American Isolationism Certainly there are In congress and outside some who remain convinced that after peace cornea we should Withdraw immediately as we did last time from all participation in European affairs bring our armies home and "attend strictly to our own business" But the number of such persons has They constitute today an exceedingly tiny minority and there are not a handful of men in public life who advocate such a course—not one important enough to be an effective leader Isolat on- doctrine in this country today There is no political nourishment in cherishing it and those who fear that it will rear Its ugly head in the new session of congress have misjudged the popular feeling See Changed Conditions The overwhelming mass of the pecTIe know now that Isolation for us iis an iimpossibility: that that isn't the way to insize peace it's the way to insure war that no permanent peace is possible unless we An— surne our full share of responsibility for its Most reasonable men are preservation willing to agree that had we done that last time this war probably coui1 have been averted The best evidence of the decay of the Isolation cause is in the fact that the Republican party is now as strongly committed to the policy of international cooperation after the peace as is the Democratic - i 75 : i : E ' Iead --4 t I : - - tr : 0 i f - t i':' t party There Is not an outstanding man in either who openly dissents- - Most of the antinew r deal Democrats who deeply distrust Mr Roosevelt on almost every domestic issue are wholly with him in his postwar foreign policy the basis of which is international Mr Hoover has been Just as cooperation eniphatic in his advocacy as Secretary Hull ti and Vice President Wallace—in fact he was a League of Nations man 25 years ' ago- Senator Taft has approved Mr Wilke s t cooperation resolution and recommitted the Republican committee to it at its recent ' meeting in St Louis - 1 1 “1 7 - Cr tAANPAIMGZ le ' '1? : 00 What the 'Sunday School Has Done for Me - I: 7 00514ctii:-24-Av'::-c':frs7-14:44- t 4 - - ' 4 a so y ' 14 a '' :1'''' 4" "t :ri c f 4e'''" 141"IA pa '!'- ri"ti i 4 ' 4 1 - : ‘: rfr-- 7 - at - 1''""s'''--- ) n -' : - t '1e V Ar rr i 0 '' 4 j 1r-4seazt v41 i 'L A4 '7 r I '' 44-— c $ -- I I 1 -- - 1:' '''1' "WE' )t qll -t a 4jpildr I ' ': 'e 1-1it : ''‘ 4 sAg e- - - ' - - - ilri '— : - r V t: z - I"! 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IV 1':::- ir ---- T - - ' ' J ” : - :1 :: 471 21 - - - ::: : : " - cogc I? :::- - ' - -t- By Ma n n ing Jpgalo - " Ard!rwegemromotweq0ffoeknrwrgqsnemft46PAnomfrsqp ' the nation Fills Out Forms I spent some hours filling out their long blanks and measuring the square footage of each room of my house last fall 0 P A announcements said they intended to allot as much oil this year as last Their publicity men gave out fancy stories about how Mr Henderson's smart young men had worked out a complex formula based on weather for the last 10 years so everyone would get his proper share But when my coupons came back the cut was 50 per cent My last year's bills showed consumption of 4325 gallons in the mildest Washington winter of a decade but my allocation was 2200 gallons for what is proving to be the worst winter in the several days My dealer theerupon informed me the value of my coupons had been cut 10 per cent and anyway he would have no oil for "three or four days" although there were only 10 gallons in my tank There I learned the problem of the oil dealer was worse than h mine Less than of his drivers generally showed up on Monday because increased pay allowed them to take more time off without losing salary 0 P A had descended upon them with new regulations requiring detailed daily reports of mileage gasoline tire life hours driven concerning each truck and it was almost impossible for the dealer to answer the telephone much less to maintain an ' 4 mine and prove it with documentary evidence if it will bring these officials any nearer a realization of the human problem in which they have involved two-thir- :4' I -- I committee rang s '1:' 1t the same old notes about "not being tough enough" "people not cooperating" and "stronger rationing to come" They are all good genial conscientious men but they are thinking in terms of national supplies area quotas and soulless statistics They simply do Loquacity Costs Lives When Random Talk Is Relayed babbled while some one was listening So a freighter was sent to the bottom of the sea and a score of American sailors were program This "moratorium" or forfeiting of drowned taxes for an entire year was the stumExercising his right of free speech short-sighte- d some thick-skulle- d bling block- - in the way of treasury appatriot It was pointed out that some had indirectly caused the death of fellow proval citizens and the loss of a munitions cargo taxpayers who had large incomes in 1942 would escape the high payments and if being sent to our boys on the fighting their incomes dropped in 1943 they would front A heedless gossip gave a cue and come into the picture again under lower a hint that enabled Hitler to save his brackets While this would be true of breath Such a person served the axis some taxpayers it is believed by many unintentionally but nevertheless effecthat the shift in the other direction would tively while asserting his independence more than offset this loss and exercising his constitutional privilege Need for shifting our federal income Men like Wendell L Winkle and Burtax system to a status has ton K Wheeler who deny any need of been admitted by almost everyone - who keeping their mouths closed on occasion has studied the changing economic situawho decry censorship as an unlawful curtion in this country While apparent even tailment of guaranteed garrulity manage Inbefore 'the war it is now essential to spill more beans and to spring more comes which have never been taxed are leaks than they can be made to realize Broad-minde- d LOW brought under the federal levy Many men discreet citizens persona are experiencing wic12 fluctuathose who have studied history those who tions in profits and earnings which will have watched the wizard of Berchtesgaderl continue during the war and afterwards pull wriggling cobras from his bag of The old income taxlaw was based on tricks those who would rather save saila more or less static economy under which ors and soldiers than to hear themselves incomes—earned or otherwise—remained spout and sputter believe in war-tim- e at a fixed level throughout a period of censorship over war-tim- e topics of discussion years That is all changed now The worker may be "sitting on top of the The opening of certain kinds of mail world" this year and out of a job next passing between Sitka and Seattle was year Farmers may have a prosperous protested not long ago by the delegate season due to rising prices and good from Alaska A congressional investigaweather while the next harvest may be tion followed disclosing the fact that Of course theoretically wage-earnesome censors had abused the confidence meager and agriculturists should save imposed by their duties in discussing contheir money in the year it is earned in tents of letters although a sufficient order to pay taxes next 'year but in a number of alarming messages had been majority of cases they fail to do this intercepted to save this government milThe Ruml plan has had fairly wide lions of dollars and thousands of human lives Instructions to Nipponese submapublicity in the past few months and has found favor among all classes of citizens rine commanders and vital disclosures to It is to be hoped that our "new broom" hidden spies were prevented from reachcongress will "sweep clean" and that ing their addressees Thus the list of victims already put out of the way by Japaamong its first activities will be an earnest and impartial study of this program to nese invaders was not augmented As long as short-wav- e bring the income tax law up to date communications are sent nightly from German stations and received nightly by listeners in the of a Great Career service of the axis on this side of the Atlantic there is no need of increasing HitDr George W Cri le Passes ler's facilities for slaughtering Americans and sinking American ships If his opporSurgery lost a devoted disciple and tunities are curtailed by censorship or by science a daring explorer of new realms of any other method less objectionable to our research when Dr George W Crile died' mortal megaphones who insist on being of a heart ailment in a Cleveland hospital heard sat any cost then such curtailment on Thursday With an international repshould be enforced as far as may be ultation unexcelled for accuracy of judgdeemed essential to security and to vicment skill in operations and success in tory We are at war and no one knows saving human lives on the very brink of when the war may end or what further dissolution he was a student of mankind sacrifices may be necessary to achieve a individually and collectively mentally We are at war with an unscrupuvictory and physically unimpaired or mangled in lous and resourceful enemy and must not peace or in war overlook this fact in playing politics or Two of his many books indicate the "defending the constitution" range of his interest and information One ia entitled "A Mechanistic View of War" and the other is "The Fallacy of the Record German State Philosophy" Born a little From a mighty colossus the duce has over 78 years ago he served in the medibeen shrunk to midget size And at that n Spanish-Americacal corps during the the wonders of dehydration have scarcely war and went across in the first World begun war earning several medals and full Secretary Wickard Insists there will be credit for saving lives and limbs of hunmore than enough cereals for each and dreds of soldiers Out of that conflict he every nne Now to discover what we can came back a brigadier general in the army get with all the box tops medical reserve corps You couldn't have told us a year"- ago Dr Crile is believed to be the first that a half a pound of butter ever would be considered a backlog physician to make a direct blood transfusion he succeessfully removed more Recovering swiftly from their astonish- ment at the first sight of a horse—an animal than 25000 goiters in his career he unknown in those parts—the natives of New made many valuable contributions to Guinea called for form sheets medicine surgery and pure science and A state of Maine man now 92 recalls held degrees from leading institutions in the last time he was attended by a that this country and abroad By studying physician was at the age of two When they nerve centers the composition of blood cure them down east they-stacured cells the preservation of physical energy We are an incurably trusting people and and the psychology of patients in pain he to date no one has brought out a refrigerator was able to introduce many innovations with a combination on the door beneficial to the profession as well as Putting it baldly loss of the initiative the public' means that the fuehrer has to play with his gradual decline began two years the other fellow's deck of cards North American Newspaper Alliance after a crash in a Florida swamp over which the plane was carrying several pasBefore windshields there were plug hats senzers besides the doctor and his wife I to paste things on and in respectively pay-as-you-- senate i7tibunt zlke Stalingrad wter By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON The outgoing Mr Leon Henderson and the remaining fuel oil rationers have not the slightest idea what they have done to the average Individual home owner Their statements before the The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the Use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this payer and also the local news published herein - It t7'J1je 1 1 - 1 t - I Press Makes Swing Expert Seeks To Clarify Air Argument By Major Al 'Williams Is there not some way to put an end to this controversy as to whether or not air power is capable of winning a modern war as the lone weapon? Airmen don't claim this We see air power as the third major arm of any nation waging a modern war We see this winged arm as the instrument without which no land or sea force can operate successfully In its present state of development we see it as complementary to the land and sea forces and not competitive with either or both We see it as the national weapon which stands the greatest chance of finding a enemy And being possessed of 10 or more times the speed of any sea fleet and having found the enemy it is most likely to be the first to attack that enemy And as to its capacity to destroy a sea fleet we merely point to the record of this war Therefore we feel we are hursuing the line of logical reason ing when we estimate air power as the first line of offense or defense of a modern nation What weapon except air power Is available to throw even one tiny stone at the industries within Germany? Yet all during the 12 months it was deemed wise to withhold the factual reports of the immobilizing defeat inflicted upon sea power by air power at Pearl Harbor the argument about air power versus sea power swung away from the old slogan "air bombs cannot sink a battleship" to "air power cannot win a war on its own" Who promotes these smokescreen discussions ? Certainly t not airmen The issue is not air power alone but the parity of air power with the land and sea forces Since air power holds first control over any combat zone land or 'sea why isn't air power accorded a position of parity with land and sea agencies? Why don't we develop air power as a separate agency? No experienced airman proposes that air power can win this war on its own without the help of the other arms Distributed by United Feature Syndicate Inc sea-bor- ne 4 The Forum Lauds Tax Views Editor Tribune: Hats off to Samuel Russell for his letter of December 24 issue of The Tribune He surely hit several nails on the head and shows plainly why Utah is so poverty-stricke- n in the way of tax receipts What happens to any man of property outside of the sheep industry who fails to declare all his holdings? Why he is fined double the amount of his stealing and sent to Jail Yet published records show that the sheep indvstry failed to declare one-haof theft stocit and of their cash receipts Mr Russell offers a sound remedy for this trouble and our legislators should be urged to correct the evil C V Greeno Ogden Utah lf two-thir- ds 2 There are it is true one or two newspapers in the country which still fly the isolation flag but feebly and their cause no longer has popular appeal The conviction has become general that the only way in ! which we can live in peace at home is e that no nation is again permitted to break the peace abroad There is so little t argument about that now that the subject Is not an issue Practically everybody these days argues on the same side This being so it is strange that so few touch upon the basic essential not Only for a sound peace but for an ordered world—to' wit complete cooperation understancfrg and friendship between the British and our- selves That is fundamental and indispensable This does not mean any lack of friendship and cooperation with Russia China and our other allies but it does mean that a British2American cooperation is the foundation upon which any peace machinery must rest That comes first and the reasons are to-se- clear t It is not only the common language the common laws and the common religion that bind us more closely to the British than to any other ally—it Is also that we have common aims and basically identical systems of government methods of thought and customs In brief there is slight difference between us It must be obvious that the sort of world upon which Mr Wallace and Mr Hoover dwelt in their recent speeches can come only through the combined weight arid common purpose of the English-speakin- g peoples There is no other way Accepting that as basic clearly anything Britthat makes for friction between Great Critiain and ourselves such as unfounded cisms and unworthy suspicions is stupid to the point of wickedness But it iS not too early to talk concretely about the necessity for complete British-Americfriendship that will stretch IndefiEngnitely into the future asand make the definitely allies in lishspeaking nations peace as we are in war Distributed by McNaught Syndicate sk t21 k ( ' '? - I an I - N ew York Highlights - By Charles B Drkeoll NEW YORIC—V mail is a grand device for getting letters back and forth to service men in certain distant areas but collectors are hoping the system of doesn't spread to include all mail That would mean about the end of collecting in connection with the mail ' However I haven't noticed that collee- tors are much worried about it In time of war the customers gladly submit to the regimenting of their letters to soldiers to save cargo space so that the boys may have more to eat and more ammunitiOn to shoot But in that brave new world after peace comes with lights turned on and bluebirds darkening the sky were going bark to letter writing covers and stamps And the collectors are busy now storing up millions of mail momentoes of this war In all its phases There will be plenty of covers with strange postmarks from all parts of the globe for not all mail goes V And certainly plenty of covers from army camps with "free" in thousands of different micro-photograp- t hy - ti - ed corner handwritings in the right-han- d The post office department did a sensible thing in decreeing that the boys could frank their own mail by writing that simple word in the corner Its a short word and a fine one Enough of those letters and we'll all be free Had the post office been as silly as some other limbs of the vast government it might have required that an official stamp be placed on the free mail bearing some such mysterious initials at T L G W P 0 P to be translated "this letter goes without payment of postage" With a few numbers and symbols added as directions to the printer engraver carrier and milkman that would have made a nice little item in the bureaucracy file But some sensible person dust said "Write free and free it goes:" Mr H W Conard of Houston Texas writes me most interestingly about his collections lie is interested in my about covers issued in the north during the war between the states My collector friend Emil Bruechig recently gave me a handful of these little envelopes now more than 70 years old and I have used some of them in writing to collector friends - - - - 4 - E :' - s recent-paragraph- I - 1 01 11 r 1 ' egt? 1 ORN Om 440"t1111Me141'- !4014q0P- k0'- ::: |